Saturday, February 19, 2011

Where's the delay?

Typically, when a journalist does a phone interview from the studio with someone in a remote location, there is a quite obvious, sometimes even annoying delay. The reporter asks a question - a noticeable gap of time passes, then the interviewee answers the question.

Not so with this report, which begs me to ask the question "How is CNN doing this?

What kind of communications technology is being used in this interview that provides such clear and immediate communication - better even than domestic interviews?

Given that this interview may very well be used to lobby Washington to intervene in the Libyan crisis, I think it's important to have the answer to this question.